Adam Powis made the foul-mouthed farewell on the public address system at the hardware giant's Weston-super-Mare branch in November. He shared a TikTok of the incident, which quickly went viral, showing the 18 year-old saying: 'This is a customer announcement. I just got sacked and B&Q are c****. F*** everyone. Have a nice day'. Britain's youngest EuroMillions winner has opened up about how her win didn't bring her happiness, saying she wouldn't 'wish it on anyone'.Appearing on an episode of...
Jan 12, 2023
@vincetracy and @terrywhitehead discussed #Spain #weather #winter #construction #water #cultivation #farmers #Madrid #Eurostat #EU #Russia #imports #BBC #media #protests #Rome #CatholicChurch #PopeBenedict #PopeFrancis
Jan 12, 2023
@mattking and @vincetracy discussed the very important question of #retirement looking at #pensions #careers #education #careersadvice #timemanagement #finances #money #age #health #travel #ambition #fitness #languagelearning #Spain #UK #hobbies #music
Dec 29, 2022
The Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill will make it easier for trans people to obtain a gender recognition certificate (GRC), which is legal recognition of their acquired gender.It will introduce a system of self-declaration for obtaining a GRC and remove the need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria...................................... Rob Burrow's dad has reacted furiously after the rugby league icon's wheelchair-accessible van was vandalised in Castleford on Friday night. Rob, ...
Dec 29, 2022
Greek MEP Eva Kaili, who has become the face of the European Parliament's widening graft scandal, will spend at least another week in custody before attending a postponed pre-trial hearing, her lawyer said Wednesday. Former EU parliament vice-president Kaili, 44, her partner Francesco Giorgi, 35, ex-MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri and lobbyist Niccolò Figa-Talamanca are all charged with corruption, money laundering and organised crime. A fishing crew has given a shocking account of how drowning migrant...
Dec 15, 2022
@mattking and @vincetracy discussed #photogrphy #television #media #software #technology #var #politics #editing #presenting #paperazzi #telephones #animations #disney #misinformation #Qatar
Dec 15, 2022
Civil servants have been told to call their Christmas parties 'festive celebrations' in an attempt to avoid offending other faiths. In another move to promote diversity and inclusion, some officials have been informed they cannot drink alcohol at a celebration if one team member is tea-total. UK Driving Low tread on tyres - £10,000 A vehicle with low tread on its tyres becomes even more dangerous in snowy and icy conditions as it can already be difficult to come to a stop. To avoid the fine you ...
Dec 15, 2022
A TikTok star has revealed how he makes more money than a doctor - despite sleeping in and only working two hours every day.Andy Peng, who goes by Andy the Sk on social media, has racked up more than 4.6million followers on TikTok thanks to his outrageous pranks. For years, the obituaries in our grander newspapers have been dominated by the intensely moving life stories of men who fought on against impossible odds, when all around them were dead, who flew badly damaged aircraft safely home despi...
Dec 15, 2022
According to Spain’s Labour Inspectorate Ryanair violated the right of workers to strike earlier in the year, when it used so called “scab” labour. Business Secretary Grant Shapps today acknowledged 'national security' fears led to taxpayers' cash being used to end China's involvement in the Sizewell C nuclear power plant. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Shapps boasted the Government's £700million investment in the controversial Suffolk project would help create thousands of jobs and shore ...
Dec 15, 2022
Plans to use ‘pushback’ tactics against small boats in the Channel have been ditched by the Home Office, the immigration minister confirmed yesterday. Robert Jenrick said analysis showed there were only ‘limited circumstances’ in which the turnaround idea could be deployed against dinghies. He said the proposals were ‘currently withdrawn’ and there were ‘no current plans’ to bring them into operation. Church worshippers cried 'heresy' at the Dean of Trinity College as they left a sermon claiming...
Dec 15, 2022
A female secondary school mentor sent a teenage pupil 3,000 messages in just two months and told 'I think I'm falling for you' and 'I want you so badly', a court heard.In a series of 'overtly sexual' texts Ellen Cadman-Smith told the 15-year-old that he 'drove her insane' and that she was 'thinking about him non-stop'.In extracts from messages read to a jury, the school worker, of Sandown, Isle of Wight, admitted she was 'half naked', saying 'I can't have you and you know why,' before arranging ...
Nov 17, 2022
Ministers were accused of betraying British workers today as a £1.6billion contract for Royal Navy support ships was handed to a consortium that will carry out work in a Spanish dockyard. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace today announced the Team Resolute consortium including Navantia, the Spanish state-owned shipbuilding company, was the preferred bidder to construct three Fleet Solid Support (FSS) vessels. A judge slammed a blundering barrister for turning up at court in Newport in Wales - when he...
Nov 17, 2022
Britain is facing a winter of discontent after 100,000 civil servants voted to strike today as comrades on the rail network agreed new dates and nurses decided on taking industrial action for the first time in more than a century. Salto de Castro, found in north-western Spain, has 44 homes, a hotel, a church and a swimming pool has been put up for sale by the current owner. The village is built over 65,000 square feet along the hilltops in the province of Zamora, near Spain's border with Portuga...
Nov 10, 2022
@mattking and @vincetracy discussed the implications of #alcohol and #drugabuse from definitions of these terms via #teaching #experience #sport #rugby #judo #music #Spain #UK #theosaps #advertising #sponsors #centrepoint #emmerdale #coronationstreet #beer #spirits #depression #loneliness #socialdrinking #age
Nov 08, 2022
A Royal Navy submarine which was fully armed with nuclear missiles aborted a top secret operation after a fire broke out onboard.The £3billion HMS Victorious, which is one of Britain’s four Trident submarines, had been sailing to a base overseas when the electrical fire started six weeks ago. The Home Office is spending millions of pounds on taxis to transport migrants across the UK - with some drivers claiming they were told to drop off passengers at railway stations with no follow up. Official...
Nov 08, 2022
China is operating dozens of secret police stations in plain view by disguising them as British restaurants, estate agents and other ordinary businesses, a civil liberties watchdog has claimed. A report from human rights organisation Safeguard Defenders warned China was operating more than 50 undeclared police hubs as part of a global network to force dissidents to return to Beijing. Change is at last taking place in the controversial arena of caring for Britain's transgender children.The turn o...
Nov 03, 2022
@MIKEPAYNE joined @vincetracy to try and make sense of the happenings in the UK. We discussed #RishiSunak #liztruss #Margaretthatcher #Tories #Labour #immigrants #racism #ecozealots #juststopoil #economy #woke cop27 #MONARCHY #THECROWN #NETFLIX
Nov 01, 2022
An updated study on dementia published in the Lancet found that around 40% of dementia cases worldwide might be attributable to 12 potentially modifiable risk factors so we looked at such factors as #Health #education #lifestyle #smoking #drugs #alcohol #hypertension #obesity #depression #physicalfitness #diabetes #internet #socialcontact #airpollution #contactsports #headinjury
Nov 01, 2022
All hell broke loose' in Dover yesterday when the driver was seen laughing as he threw the devices at the Western Jet Foil immigration centre on the dockside, where nearly 1,000 migrants were brought for processing less than 24 hours earlier. A council has broken up a family-of-eight after they were kicked out of their privately-rented home in June. Birmingham City Council could not find a home big enough to accommodate all of the family, with the family members split into two temporary houses i...
Nov 01, 2022
The outgoing Prime Minister could leave a lasting mark and controversially lavish her closest aides with gongs despite a disastrously short tenure in Downing Street. Mark Fullbrook , the former premier's chief of staff, is understood to have suggested she reward her outgoing staff and advisers with knighthoods and peerages. https://www.climateemergencyfund.org Just Stop Oil’s disruptive protests, blamed for petrol shortages across parts of England, have been funded by US philanthropists who say ...
Oct 27, 2022
A new report has suggested that mums who choose to stay at home with their children should be given an extra £8,000 for support. Researchers at the Civitas think tank plan to urge ministers to make an £8,000 childcare allowance available in order to help stay-at-home mums. Labour MP Rosie Duffield has said she will refuse to call Eddie Izzard a woman. The comedian, who is campaigning to stand as a Labour MP, announced two years ago the decision to use 'she/her' pronouns. Parents of children as y...
Oct 25, 2022
Mike Payne joined me to discuss the bizarre series events taking place in the UK after Liz Truss became Prime Minister. How much longer will she remain in office?
Oct 20, 2022
Spain will waste €300 million by putting the clocks back by one hour according to calculations by the Institute for the Diversification and Saving of Energy (IDAE). By abandoning this move from Summer Time to Winter Time, the evenings (when people are more active) would remain lighter for one hour and could ensure a reduction in energy consumption of around 5 per cent. In theory the decision to introduce Summer Time was to give more light to farmers at the height of their sowing and harvesting t...
Oct 20, 2022
Former British fighter pilots are training the Chinese to shoot down Western aircraft, officials warned last night. Up to 30 pilots have recently moved to China after securing £250,000-a-year contracts to teach Western flying procedures, it was revealed. Nicola Sturgeon today claimed the UK is 'fundamentally on the wrong path' as the SNP leader continued her fresh push for Scottish independence. The Scottish First Minister insisted an independent Scotland would be able to have its own Scottish p...
Oct 20, 2022
Nicola Sturgeon was rebuked by ministers and MPs after she delivered the jibe during an interview in which she hinted at a possible election tie-up with Keir Starmer . The SNP leader insisted it is 'not difficult to answer' the question of whether Sir Keir or Liz Truss should be in No10, saying: 'I detest the Tories and everything they stand for.' An orchestra which has received more than £1 million of public money refused to play the National Anthem after the Queen died because it said it symbo...
Oct 11, 2022
The Spanish government said on Thursday that residents whose wealth exceeds €3 million will be subject to a new asset tax during the next two years, 2023 and 2024, as part of its upcoming budget that will need to be approved by the Spanish Congress. Budget and Public Finances Minister María Jesús Montero said the temporary wealth tax, which could affect 23,000 people, or 0.1 % of taxpayers, was one of ‘solidarity’. budget minister said this will benefit some 50% of the workforce given that the a...
Oct 06, 2022
Eco-protestors who smear the government as ‘genocidal’ paralysed central London for hours yesterday as they unleashed a planned month-long campaign of mayhem.Members of the group Just Stop Oil occupied four bridges in the capital, causing gridlock on busy roads, before converging on Parliament. Local councillors have been accused of telling 'sob-stories' about how they are struggling in the cost-of-living crisis to ensure their own pay-rises - after they rejected debating a £660,000 boost for fr...
Oct 03, 2022
Terry Whitehead 29th September 2022 Europe must prepare for 'previously unimaginable' threats to its offshore and undersea infrastructure, Germany's interior minister has said today, after the Nord Stream pipe was blown up in a suspected Russian attack. Leaders have already begun scrambling to shore up their defences with NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg in Denmark today for talks which he said 'addressed the protection of critical infrastructure' while Norway said it was deploying the military to pr...
Sep 29, 2022
A transgender children's charity has been accused of giving chest-flattening devices to young girls against their parents' wishes. Mermaids staff offered to send a breast binder to a girl they believed was only 14 after being told she was banned from using one by her mother. According to an investigation by the Daily Telegraph, the charity has been offering binders to children as young as 13 despite their parents saying they oppose the practice. A woman has sparked a debate online after admittin...
Sep 27, 2022
Disgraced former King Juan Carlos of Spain has arrived at Buckingham Palace ahead of the Queen's state funeral amid a row over his attendance. The former monarch, 84, who currently lives in Abu Dhabi, was reportedly asked not to attend the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II by Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchéz. But he was pictured being ushered into the Palace by Queen Sofía while clutching the hand of an official for support ahead of the 'reception of the century', where King Charles III an...
Sep 21, 2022
